Last week the big news was the upset of Wofford College by Furman at Furman. Everything else went pretty much according to plan. Another note worth mentioning was the big win of Sam Houston State over McNeese St. That clears the way for Sam Houston State to win that division and enter into the FCS Top 10 in some polls.
Week 9:
There are two amazing games this week.
Georgia Southern vs. Appy State.
- This game is huge and how exactly will it look. Appy has revamped their offense by benching DeAndre Presley. Well that was until they needed him to play cornerback. He had 6 tackles and a forced fumble. He may have actually helped himself in the NFL draft. Georgia Southern has run over everyone, and Appy is vulnerable to the run. So we will see what happens.
Northern Iowa vs. North Dakota State
- This is a great match up of #2 vs.#4 (or sometimes #3). The MVC is on the line and North Dakota State avoided their trap game with rival South Dakota State last week. This is big time, and I am jazzed up. Both should still make the playoffs, but this is a colossal match up. Edge to NDST because they are at home.
James Madison vs. Old Dominion
- This is another Top 10 match up in most polls. It should be a nice slug fest, but thanks to other game trip ups, this is not for the CAA title. In fact, there are so many other good CAA teams that a loss here could be dangerous.
Townsen hosts Delaware to stay perfect in the CAA and Maine goes to Villanova.
Montana St hosts Idaho St and Montana hosts Weber St. Leigh also plays a very winnable game at home.
Enjoy what may be the best weekend of college football action all year.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Monday, October 17, 2011
Week 7 results
I have to say most things went according to plan this week. Not a whole lot of upsets.
George Southern beat down Furman 50-20, and it was not really that close.
Northern Iowa won at South Dakota St. 31-14.
Montana St. was victorious over Northern Arizona 42-24.
North Dakota St. beat winless Missouri State 51-21.
Wofford beat Virginia Wise, which is a lower division, 47-14. The third string quarterback got to play. Back-to-back kick off returns for a touchdown did happen in this game.
Appy St. held off the Citadel 49-42, but most of the Citadel's points came late in the second half. So this was not as close as it looked.
James Madison beat Villanova 31-10. They were trailing at half, but turned on the jets in the second half.
Lehigh beat Fordham 34-12. Fordham managed a safety, but was really beat down in this game.
Jacksonville State beat Austin Peay 44-14. The OVC appears Jacksonville State's to lose as Tennessee Tech went down to rival Tennessee State 42-40. Jacksonville State is now the only team undefeated in OVC play.
The CAA did have the two real upsets this week. Towson beat Old Dominion 39-35. This means Towson is 5-1 and undefeated in the CAA. Delaware lost their game to UMass. UMass put up 21 points in the first quarter and never scored again. Delaware managed only 10 points, all in the second quarter. Towson and Maine are at the top of the conference with undefeated records. Maine beat Rhode Island this week. William and Mary manages to hang around in the picture with their home win against New Hampshire.
Some good games next week, as the season marches on. Stay tuned.
George Southern beat down Furman 50-20, and it was not really that close.
Northern Iowa won at South Dakota St. 31-14.
Montana St. was victorious over Northern Arizona 42-24.
North Dakota St. beat winless Missouri State 51-21.
Wofford beat Virginia Wise, which is a lower division, 47-14. The third string quarterback got to play. Back-to-back kick off returns for a touchdown did happen in this game.
Appy St. held off the Citadel 49-42, but most of the Citadel's points came late in the second half. So this was not as close as it looked.
James Madison beat Villanova 31-10. They were trailing at half, but turned on the jets in the second half.
Lehigh beat Fordham 34-12. Fordham managed a safety, but was really beat down in this game.
Jacksonville State beat Austin Peay 44-14. The OVC appears Jacksonville State's to lose as Tennessee Tech went down to rival Tennessee State 42-40. Jacksonville State is now the only team undefeated in OVC play.
The CAA did have the two real upsets this week. Towson beat Old Dominion 39-35. This means Towson is 5-1 and undefeated in the CAA. Delaware lost their game to UMass. UMass put up 21 points in the first quarter and never scored again. Delaware managed only 10 points, all in the second quarter. Towson and Maine are at the top of the conference with undefeated records. Maine beat Rhode Island this week. William and Mary manages to hang around in the picture with their home win against New Hampshire.
Some good games next week, as the season marches on. Stay tuned.
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Week 6 results
What a great week of football!!!!
Georgia Southern barely squeaks by UTC on a very controversial decision by UTC to go for two. Georgia Southern put up 21 points in the 2nd quarter to take control of the game 21-7. UTC held off Georgia Southern for the 3rd quarter and reduced the lead. Tied it early in the 4th, but Georgia Southern would go up 28-21 with 6:49 to go in the 4th. UTC responded and scored with 1:44 to go in the game. It was now 28-27 in Statesboro, and UTC decides to go for 2. They had momentum, but I would play the number 1 team in the nation in OT rather than lose outright. Georgia Southern stuffed it, and recovered the on-side kick for a big win in what was really their first test. Georgia Southern's option attack was on full display and it was enough as they had over 300 yards on the ground.
#2 Northern Iowa had no problem with their opponent in a 23-9 win. They were only up 10-9 at half, but the second half was all Northern Iowa. Indiana State drops their first conference game, but still has to play North Dakota St.
#3 Montana State won another close game that came down to a two point conversion try. This was at Portland State and it was kind of a back and forth game with the main difference being that Portland had to settle for field goals and Montana State scored TDs. However late in the fourth Portland put in a TD with 3 minutes and change left on the clock and made the two point conversion. They then recovered the on-side kick. Hit a pass in the end zone, went for a rushing two point conversion and was tackled short of the line. Game over. Montana State wins by two: 38-36.
#4 or 5 depending on the poll, North Dakota State had a tough time with Southern Illinois. But their defense was really impressive. It was 3- Southern Illinois at half, and North Dakota State's offense was non-existent. 30 yards of offense or something like that. I am pretty positive that Southern Illinois had less than 100. 76 I believe. Jensen the QB for NDSt was picked off for the first time this year. He has a nice arm, but does tend to throw into a crowd. He had a few others that were just missed, but they were often caught by his own team. A flea flicker helped NDSt get the game tying field goal in the 3rd. Then in the 4th they just picked Southern Illinois apart ending up in a beautiful TD pass and they won 3-10. McNorton had no success on the ground with only 31 total yards and nothing longer than 6 (which did come on a game icing drive). Still McNorton had a pretty good game. He caught one 10 yard pass, and was great in picking up the blitz.
#4 or 5 depending on the polls Wofford destroyed Citadel. Citadel was at home and coming off the big win over UTC. But this time they did not get the second half come back. Wofford had 14 in each of the first 2 quarters. It did not stop until the score was 43-0 (they got a safety). Citadel put 14 points up late when Wofford had emptied the benches. Breitenstein was over 100 yards and had a score. Mitch Allen had 80+ and a TD, Donavon Johnson was actually held in check, but did get a TD. Next year's quarterback Brian Kass was 3 for 3 for 56 yards passing, and 5 rushes for 11 yards. He handed it off to Alex Dunmire and Brody Hingst the majority of times. Wofford looked real good.
As a side note Furman lost in an upset to Samford. It could be the cures of looking ahead to Georgia Southern. UTC lost last week to Citadel and Furman this week. They get Georgia Southern this week.
New Hampshire had no problem with Villanova.
James Madison lost in OT to Maine.
Appy St. was off this week.
William and Mary proved me right that they are super overrated by losing to Delaware 0-21. That is right, they were shut out.
Leigh put an early strangle hold on the Patriot league with a pounding of Bucknell at Bucknell 30-6.
Sam Houston St. won.
McNeese St lost.
Jacksonville State did not play.
Those were your top 25 teams in action. Hopefully we will start to see some realistic placement of William and Mary and move Townsen up as they won again this week over Richmond.
Georgia Southern barely squeaks by UTC on a very controversial decision by UTC to go for two. Georgia Southern put up 21 points in the 2nd quarter to take control of the game 21-7. UTC held off Georgia Southern for the 3rd quarter and reduced the lead. Tied it early in the 4th, but Georgia Southern would go up 28-21 with 6:49 to go in the 4th. UTC responded and scored with 1:44 to go in the game. It was now 28-27 in Statesboro, and UTC decides to go for 2. They had momentum, but I would play the number 1 team in the nation in OT rather than lose outright. Georgia Southern stuffed it, and recovered the on-side kick for a big win in what was really their first test. Georgia Southern's option attack was on full display and it was enough as they had over 300 yards on the ground.
#2 Northern Iowa had no problem with their opponent in a 23-9 win. They were only up 10-9 at half, but the second half was all Northern Iowa. Indiana State drops their first conference game, but still has to play North Dakota St.
#3 Montana State won another close game that came down to a two point conversion try. This was at Portland State and it was kind of a back and forth game with the main difference being that Portland had to settle for field goals and Montana State scored TDs. However late in the fourth Portland put in a TD with 3 minutes and change left on the clock and made the two point conversion. They then recovered the on-side kick. Hit a pass in the end zone, went for a rushing two point conversion and was tackled short of the line. Game over. Montana State wins by two: 38-36.
#4 or 5 depending on the poll, North Dakota State had a tough time with Southern Illinois. But their defense was really impressive. It was 3- Southern Illinois at half, and North Dakota State's offense was non-existent. 30 yards of offense or something like that. I am pretty positive that Southern Illinois had less than 100. 76 I believe. Jensen the QB for NDSt was picked off for the first time this year. He has a nice arm, but does tend to throw into a crowd. He had a few others that were just missed, but they were often caught by his own team. A flea flicker helped NDSt get the game tying field goal in the 3rd. Then in the 4th they just picked Southern Illinois apart ending up in a beautiful TD pass and they won 3-10. McNorton had no success on the ground with only 31 total yards and nothing longer than 6 (which did come on a game icing drive). Still McNorton had a pretty good game. He caught one 10 yard pass, and was great in picking up the blitz.
#4 or 5 depending on the polls Wofford destroyed Citadel. Citadel was at home and coming off the big win over UTC. But this time they did not get the second half come back. Wofford had 14 in each of the first 2 quarters. It did not stop until the score was 43-0 (they got a safety). Citadel put 14 points up late when Wofford had emptied the benches. Breitenstein was over 100 yards and had a score. Mitch Allen had 80+ and a TD, Donavon Johnson was actually held in check, but did get a TD. Next year's quarterback Brian Kass was 3 for 3 for 56 yards passing, and 5 rushes for 11 yards. He handed it off to Alex Dunmire and Brody Hingst the majority of times. Wofford looked real good.
As a side note Furman lost in an upset to Samford. It could be the cures of looking ahead to Georgia Southern. UTC lost last week to Citadel and Furman this week. They get Georgia Southern this week.
New Hampshire had no problem with Villanova.
James Madison lost in OT to Maine.
Appy St. was off this week.
William and Mary proved me right that they are super overrated by losing to Delaware 0-21. That is right, they were shut out.
Leigh put an early strangle hold on the Patriot league with a pounding of Bucknell at Bucknell 30-6.
Sam Houston St. won.
McNeese St lost.
Jacksonville State did not play.
Those were your top 25 teams in action. Hopefully we will start to see some realistic placement of William and Mary and move Townsen up as they won again this week over Richmond.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Week 5 results
We are starting to see some things emerge:
Big Sky - Montana St won and is in control. Eastern Washington finally won, but it means little. Montana won keeping that Montana St. showdown important. Portland State is undefeated in the Big Sky, but will face real challenges soon enough.
Big South had a weak week. Liberty still looks tough here.
CAA - Maine's upset of Delaware was the big news, and it puts James Madison in the drivers seat. They beat Richmond. Townson is still having a good season and was in it against Maryland for a while. William and Mary beat Villanova, but they are still in big trouble. Old Dominion looks good, and is still in it. New Hampshire played out of conference and won. They are the real wild card here. How good are they?
Independents - Southern Utah may have cost themselves a shot at the tournament by losing to North Dakota.
Ivy - Yale was embarrassed by Leigh (out of conference), but they still may be the class of the Ivy. Harvard has the same record as does Brown, who put up a nice win against Rhode Island (out of conference). Those are the teams to watch.
MEAC - South Carolina State dropped a game to Norfolk State who is now in control of the MEAC race. Wow. Did not see that one coming. Norfolk State is 4-1 overall and undefeated in the MEAC.
MVC - North Dakota State and Northern Iowa both took care of business. They are clearly on a collision course. Don't sleep on an Indiana State team that is also undefeated in conference and 4-1 overall. They could mess everything up. This conference should get multiple bids this year.
NEC - Duquesne has the best record, but this conference still feels open. Robert Morris is 1-0 in the conference getting their first win. So we will see.
OVC - Tennessee Tech beat UT Martin to remain undefeated in the conference. They will have to dethrone Jacksonville State who continues to play well in conference.
Patriot - Bucknell dismantled Georgetown to remove a potential contender. That leaves Leigh. They won again and have played a nice out of conference schedule. Leigh should be favored, but the season is young.
Pioneer - Jacksonville, Drake, and San Diego all won and are all 2-0 in the conference.
Southern - Georgia Southern destroyed Elon too remain #1 in the nation in all polls. However, Wofford upset Appy St, and could have won by a bigger score. UTC on the other hand just lost to Citadel giving up a 24-0 halftime lead. Wow. With Georgia Southern and Wofford still on the schedule that may have cost UTC the playoffs. Furman is undefeated in the conference, and looking to take UTC's slot as playoff hopeful.
Southland - This conference is again coming down to McNeese State versus Sam Houston State. Both look real good. I am ready for this game.
SWAC - Jackson State and Alabama State are the leaders out of the gate.
I don't understand the national polls still ranking William and Mary so high, but this year looks to be a good year for the MVC and the Southern. CAA may be a bit down, but will still have several strong teams in the playoffs. James Madison in particular looks great.
Big Sky - Montana St won and is in control. Eastern Washington finally won, but it means little. Montana won keeping that Montana St. showdown important. Portland State is undefeated in the Big Sky, but will face real challenges soon enough.
Big South had a weak week. Liberty still looks tough here.
CAA - Maine's upset of Delaware was the big news, and it puts James Madison in the drivers seat. They beat Richmond. Townson is still having a good season and was in it against Maryland for a while. William and Mary beat Villanova, but they are still in big trouble. Old Dominion looks good, and is still in it. New Hampshire played out of conference and won. They are the real wild card here. How good are they?
Independents - Southern Utah may have cost themselves a shot at the tournament by losing to North Dakota.
Ivy - Yale was embarrassed by Leigh (out of conference), but they still may be the class of the Ivy. Harvard has the same record as does Brown, who put up a nice win against Rhode Island (out of conference). Those are the teams to watch.
MEAC - South Carolina State dropped a game to Norfolk State who is now in control of the MEAC race. Wow. Did not see that one coming. Norfolk State is 4-1 overall and undefeated in the MEAC.
MVC - North Dakota State and Northern Iowa both took care of business. They are clearly on a collision course. Don't sleep on an Indiana State team that is also undefeated in conference and 4-1 overall. They could mess everything up. This conference should get multiple bids this year.
NEC - Duquesne has the best record, but this conference still feels open. Robert Morris is 1-0 in the conference getting their first win. So we will see.
OVC - Tennessee Tech beat UT Martin to remain undefeated in the conference. They will have to dethrone Jacksonville State who continues to play well in conference.
Patriot - Bucknell dismantled Georgetown to remove a potential contender. That leaves Leigh. They won again and have played a nice out of conference schedule. Leigh should be favored, but the season is young.
Pioneer - Jacksonville, Drake, and San Diego all won and are all 2-0 in the conference.
Southern - Georgia Southern destroyed Elon too remain #1 in the nation in all polls. However, Wofford upset Appy St, and could have won by a bigger score. UTC on the other hand just lost to Citadel giving up a 24-0 halftime lead. Wow. With Georgia Southern and Wofford still on the schedule that may have cost UTC the playoffs. Furman is undefeated in the conference, and looking to take UTC's slot as playoff hopeful.
Southland - This conference is again coming down to McNeese State versus Sam Houston State. Both look real good. I am ready for this game.
SWAC - Jackson State and Alabama State are the leaders out of the gate.
I don't understand the national polls still ranking William and Mary so high, but this year looks to be a good year for the MVC and the Southern. CAA may be a bit down, but will still have several strong teams in the playoffs. James Madison in particular looks great.
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